Study on Climate Adaptability Design Strategies Based on the Human Body Thermal Comfort: Taking Guanzhong Rural Housing as Example

摘要

A field survey in Guanzhong plain in China has been done on vernacular dwellings to obtain thermal adaptability model which is expressed as T_n = 0.691T_(out,m)+12.91(R~2 = 0.915) . An analysis has been done on local climate data by using climate analysis method combined with psychrometric chart and establishes comfort zones of two seasons of winter and summer in Turpan. In this paper, we defined four controlling potential areas (passive solar heating, the mass effect and night ventilation, natural ventilation, and evaporative cooling) and obtained the number of days when we can apply passive design strategy. Finally, this paper summarized the suitable design strategies which response to climate environment on vernacular dwellings in Guanzhong plain in China.